The Fiery Furnaces are performing a free show in a NYC park tonight — at the East River Park at 7 p.m. A detailed MAP of East River Park is [HERE].
Last August, their performance at Socrates Sculpture Park in Queens was one of the highlights of the concert year for nyctaper. This year, we will attempt to record Fiery Furnaces for the 7th 8th time, and the first time since the April show at Southpaw. The band has undergone some more changes, as temporary keyboard player Kyle Hollingsworth has returned to his solo work and guitarist/bassist Jason Loewenstein is back on board.
The Furnaces also added Annabelle of the unique “glockenbelle”, a percussionist who “plays piano, ukelele, recorder, glockenspiel, marimba, vibraphone, casio VL-5, il mignolo, zither, the underwood, and an array of small percussions” with thimbles. She will perform with the Furnaces tonight.
The opening band tonight is Drug Rug, a punk-pop band from Cambridge MA. We understand that the curfew is 10 p.m., so expect that Drug Rug will play from approximately 7:30 to 8:15 and the Furnaces with perform from 8:45 p.m. to 10.
I recorded the entire show and will have it up here in a day or two. I really hope no one followed my time info, because the Furnaces went on a lot earlier than expected. Alas, Jason was not there, but Michael Goodman returned as a second percussionist.
Great show, great time, great atmosphere.
awesome show! can’t wait to hear it, as usual!
some nice new renditions i’ve never heard before – very excited for the tapes.
was it me or did matt seem really angry at everyone – eleanor also left off “and this is my brother matt” after announcing the rest of the band…
Oh, I don’t think so. Matt was doing a lot of smiling at the drummers during the show and he seemed pretty relaxed when I spoke to him afterwards. Eleanor was also doing a lot of post-show chatting and signing shirts and more fan interaction than usual.
I don’t suppose anyone grabbed a t-shirt for me? Ah well. Can’t wait to hear the broadcast Dan, and also glad that some of your recordings made it onto ‘Remember’!!!
I’m so happy you recorded that show! I can’t wait to hear!